Monk feats vs. undead

[Sir ThornCrest]

Player interested in Monk in a undead killer campaign...but he is now having reservations, he's afraid of getting into a grapple with undead (Vampire) with draining ability. Also what feats can he take to better combat the undead.

holy ki strike, sanctify ki strike are the 2 feats I found most fitting. What are some other suggestions to better combat especially with high wisdom, other that intuitive strike (using wis to hit in place of str).

Thorncrest

 

[Jdvn1]

There's an armor quality in Libris Mortis that basically stops all negative energy attacks once per day.

Probably a similar feat too.

 

[FireLance]

Also from Libris Mortis:

Enduring Life enables you to ignore negative levels temporarily and gives you a bonus to saves to remove negative levels.

Lasting Life enables you to shed one negative level a round with a successful Will save (you can keep retrying to remove negative levels).

A grappling monk with these feats should be able to hold off the effects of negative levels until after the combat, and then remove them before they kill him or have any other permanent effect.

 

[FireLance]

Forgot to add: Libris Mortis is generally a great resource to have if you're running an undead-heavy campaign.

 

[Sir ThornCrest]

I saw on similiar thread a feat that allows crits vs undead

are all feats that combat undead located in the Libris Mortis? Sounds like a book I should buy. Worth it? Does anyone out ther know of some anti undead feats?


Thorncrest

There's an armor quality in Libris Mortis that basically stops all negative energy attacks once per day.

Probably a similar feat too.

 

[Jdvn1]

Libris Mortis and the Book of Exalted Deeds probably cover all of your anti-undead stuff. I hear it's a great book, but I haven't had more than a glance through it.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Be very, very careful with the Book of Exalted Deeds, though. It's got a lot of overpowered stuff. Nothing I immediately noticed as gamebreaking, but a lot of PrCs that are just "you get all the core class goodies, and here's a bunch more, too."

 

[Jdvn1]

Good point.

 

[Doomhunter]

I was under the impression that a Vampires level drain attack was tied to its Slam attack, since you cant slam someone who has you pinned what would be the problem? Otherwise a Vamp could just use level drain as a touch attack.

 

[AuraSeer]

Doomhunter, slam counts as a natural attack, which means you can use it in a grapple.